Brave Men by Ernie Pyle

Author:Ernie Pyle [Pyle, Ernie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8032-5592-0
Publisher: UNP - Bison Books
Published: 2014-04-23T16:00:00+00:00

Anzio and Nettuno run together along the coast, forming practically one city. There is really only one main street, which runs along the low blocks just back of the first row of waterfront buildings. The two cities stretch for about three miles, but extend only a few blocks back from the waterfront. A low hill covered thick with tall cedar trees rises just back of them, and along some of the streets there are palm trees.

I had supposed these two places were just ancient little fishing villages. Well, they are old, but not in their present form. Anzio is where Nero is supposed to have fiddled while Rome burned, but in more recent years he would doubtless have been sprawling in a deck chair in the patio of his seaside villa drinking cognac.

These two towns are now (or, rather, were until the war) high, class seaside resorts. They’ve been modernized within the last twenty years, and they are much bigger and much more up-to-date than I had supposed. At one point, the towns extend two hundred yards from the water’s edge, forming a solid flank of fine stone buildings four and five stories high. Most of these are apartment houses, business offices, and rich people’s villas.

When we landed there was no civilian life in Anzio-Nettuno. The Germans had evacuated everybody before we arrived, and we found the place deserted. A few Italians straggled back in, but they were few indeed.

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